linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable.

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:43:09 +1000
From:	Grant Coady <grant_lkml@...o.com.au>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable.

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:42:47 -0400 (EDT), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>> >   yes, it's nitpicking but, as it's laid out right now, it's
>> > unnecessarily confusing and inconsistent.  but i don't know if
>> > there's a trivial fix for it.
>>
>> Yes, I'd call MSDOS partitions basic, not Advanced, and then put all
>> others under an Advanced menu that can be toggled on/off easily with
>> menuconfig.
>>
>> Not quite trivial, but not messy either.
>>
>> Patch below.  Comments?
>
>... patch snipped ...
>
>  i suspect that's as good as it's going to get, but it's unfortunate
>that it adds yet another level of submenu under "Partition types."
>personally, i was pondering a top level submenu entry of "Advanced
>partition types" in which the (non-advanced) MSDOS partition support
>was yanked out of there *entirely*.
>
>  it strikes me that, at least on x86, MSDOS partition support is so
>fundamental that it should take work for someone to turn it *off*.
>perhaps simply have it on by default, and force someone to go under
>"Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
>(CONFIG_EMBEDDED) to make it go away?
>
>  seriously, how often is someone going to build a kernel for x86 and
>not need MSDOS partition support?  just curious.

I've been compiling msdos support as modules for ages, and I have one 
x86 machine here that hasn't referenced an msdos filesystem for over 
four years ;)  

Grant.
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